About

Founded in 2008, OHT [Office for a Human Theatre] is the research studio of theatre-maker and curator Filippo Andreatta whose work deals with landscape, daily personal politics and public spaces.

OHT has achieved national and international collaborations such as Haydn Foundation (IT), NYC Artists’ Salon (USA), Roma Europa festival (IT), Triennale Teatro Milan (IT), the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation (USA), Whitechapel Gallery London (UK), Teatro della Tosse Genova (IT), Italian Cultural Institute of Vienna (AT), MAXXI museum of the arts of the XXI century Rome (IT), among the others. Finally, Centrale Fies has frequently been partner of various projects, either for productions or for premieres.

OHT has been honoured with awards for artistic excellence, including Nuove Sensibilità for young theatre directors (2008), Movin’Up award for young artists (2016 and 2017), OPER.A 20.21 Fringe (2017) and nominated for Best Set-Design at UBU prize (2018).

press quote

"It's a scene of extreme grace" > Stratagemmi

“Filippo Andreatta is a new name of the Italian Theatre” > la Lettura - Corriere della Sera

“Keep ringing, bell, please! [...] an opera that you would never want to end” > la Lettura - Corriere della Sera

“One of the most interesting company on the new indie scene” > la Rebubblica

“OHT was born to actualise what is abstract” > Icon Design

“A talented Italian company” > SKY arte

“It opens your mind to the deeper meaning of democracy” > l’Adige

“In its minute pride, the Minuta Retrospettiva [by OHT] brings back theatre to its basis, as a place dedicated to the existential resistance.“ > Il Fatto Quotidiano

“Well thought out and cultured, to watch it in order to support us and to worry less about ourselves, or at least doing it ironically.” > zero.eu

publications

+ The Journal of Architecture: Volume 24: Number 8, edited by Alexandra Tommasini, published by Routledge, 2020
+ Loc. Fies 1 / Little Fun Palace, edited by F.Andreatta and S.Peluso, published by bruno, 2019
+ The Street, where the world is made, Hou Hanru, catalouge MAXXI exhibition, quodlibet, 2018
+ Contemporary Performance Almanac, edited by C.Manson and J.Nelson, 2015
+ Open Museum Open City, Hou Hanru, catalouge MAXXI exhibition, mousse publishing, 2014
+ Paradigm Islands: New York and Venice. Teresa Stoppani, Routledge, 2010

awards

2018 - UBU Prize nomination
Curon/Graun nominated for best set-up

2017 - OPERA 20.21
Awarded by Haydn Foundation

2017 - GAI - Giovani Artisti Italiani
Movin’ Up prize

2015 - GAI - Giovani Artisti Italiani
Movin’ Up prize

2008 - Nuove Sensibilità
Prize for young theatre-makers

contact

Filippo Andreatta, founder > filippo@oht.tn.it

Laura Marinelli, producer > laura@oht.tn.it

Anna Benazzoli, anthropologist > anna@oht.tn.it

Laura Artoni, curator & promoter > la@lauraartoni.com